Amongst other our secular businesses and cures, our principal intent and fervent desire is to see virtue and cleanness of living to be advanced, increased, and multiplied, and vices and all other things repugnant to virtue, provoking the high indignation and fearful displeasure of God, to be repressed and annulled.
I don't want to be a dictator, because it is contrary to my own conscience. I am a democrat, but I don't desire democratic liberalism. On the contrary, I want a guided democracy... I have a conception of my own, which I will put at the disposal of the party leaders if required.
When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
I have no desire to be a cat, which walks so lightly that it never creates a disturbance.
The Hebrew Bible, while firmly opposing pagan sexual practices, nevertheless celebrates man's and woman's desire for each other as divinely designed.
The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.
Boilersuits are used by everybody from pilots in the army to racing drivers to people who clean your drains. The one piece overall is what all males secretly desire.
You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.
It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand.
I've never eaten a strawberry in my life. I have no desire to do that.
An object should elicit desire, and often it happens not because people need it but because they love it.
We all mythologize to some degree ourselves and probably embellish. I think some of that is the desire to tell stories.
Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.
Woe to the man who is always busy - hurried in a turmoil of engagements, from occupation to occupation, and with no seasons interposed of recollection, contemplation and repose! Such a man must inevitably be gross and vulgar, and hard and indelicate - the sort of man with whom no generous spirit would desire to hold intercourse.
An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
The desire for freedom and equilibrium (harmony) is inherent in man (due to the universal in him).
I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.
